"You… just who are you?", The three tomoe in Uchiha Itachi's eyes appeared once more, his gaze locking onto the Uchiha Obito standing in the shade of the trees.
Within those gloomy eyes, a cold killing intent seeped out.
He had already used his Sharingan to cast a genjutsu on the other party. As long as the target fell into the illusion, he would answer all questions truthfully.
But the result disappointed him. The other party showed no reaction of being caught in the genjutsu, instead, he let out a soft chuckle.
"Hehehe!"
"That look in your eyes. Is it because you want to kill me, and avenge your teammates?"
Uchiha Obito curled his lips, "If that's the case, how about giving it a try?"
Hearing the other mention past events, Uchiha Itachi's gaze turned even colder, the killing intent in his eyes nearly taking solid form.
But his instincts as a shinobi allowed him to quickly regain composure.
"You're an Uchiha too?"
To be completely immune to his Sharingan's genjutsu without doing anything. This meant the man possessed a Sharingan of the same level as his.
"I'm just a lingering soul of the Uchiha."
Uchiha Obito slowly approached Uchiha Itachi, "Or… you can call me… Uchiha…"
"Madara."
In the shadows, the only visible eye of Uchiha Obito lit up. That three-tomoe Sharingan looked exceptionally piercing in the darkness.
"That's impossible!", Uchiha Itachi immediately refuted him.
'No matter how powerful a shinobi may be, they cannot escape the cycle of birth, aging, illness, and death.'
'Uchiha Madara, nearly a hundred years old, even if he really is still alive, would be nothing but a feeble old man clinging to life.'
'There's no way he'd appear in front of me now.'
"Heh! don't believe it?", Uchiha Obito chuckled again, his Sharingan's tomoe spinning rapidly, transforming into a shuriken shape.
"Mangekyō Sharingan?0", Uchiha Itachi's eyes widened, his heart sinking completely.
Even if the other man wasn't Uchiha Madara, having that eye alone made him a tremendous threat to the village.
"Uchiha Itachi, let me witness your pupil technique. Don't disappoint me."
Uchiha Obito's attitude toward Uchiha Itachi was like an elder speaking to a child, supremely arrogant.
Uchiha Itachi's eyes also transformed into the windmill-like shape of the Mangekyō Sharingan, though he didn't immediately use his ocular technique.
"Even someone like Uchiha Madara needs to hide behind a mask?"
"Just trying to avoid some unnecessary trouble… Hm?", While Uchiha Obito was speaking, Uchiha Itachi had already thrown several kunai toward him.
The kunai once again passed through his body.
Without the slightest hesitation, Uchiha Itachi pulled out another kunai and stabbed toward Uchiha Obito's vital points.
This time, his body passed completely through Obito's as well.
Uchiha Itachi furrowed his brows, 'Such an eerie ability, this can only be the pupil technique of the Mangekyō Sharingan.'
Before he could turn around, a sudden chill swept toward him.
SHIIING!
The sound of cutting wind echoed.
Uchiha Itachi immediately reversed his grip and blocked the kunai that was aiming for his back.
'This time, it actually made contact?'
A thread of doubt emerged in his heart, he needed more intel.
Uchiha Itachi turned to face him, grasping another kunai in his other hand.
The two began close-quarters combat, sparks flying with every clash, appearing especially vivid in the rain.
Uchiha Itachi didn't use ninjutsu or pupil technique, relying solely on the insight of his Mangekyō Sharingan, he fought using pure taijutsu against Uchiha Obito.
Meanwhile, Uchiha Obito, to showcase his ease and deepen his inscrutable image, would occasionally use Kamui to catch Uchiha Itachi off guard.
But even with Kamui, he couldn't defeat Itachi in a short time.
The insight of the Mangekyō Sharingan was terrifying. With the help of the rain, Itachi could immediately detect which of Obito's attacks were effective.
And in this short exchange, Uchiha Itachi had mostly figured out the other's ability.
He could enter a phasing state to avoid attacks, but in that state, he couldn't attack either.
Moreover, from the moment rain passed through the opponent's body until the moment he turned tangible again, there was a time gap in switching between states.
He just didn't know whether this phasing state lasted for only an instant or could be maintained for a long time.
The two's kunai clashed again in mid-air and bounced apart.
Uchiha Itachi instantly threw another kunai from his other hand.
It passed straight through Uchiha Obito's forehead.
At that moment, Obito also stabbed a kunai toward Itachi's chest.
But just as he was about to return to a physical state, his expression suddenly changed.
"Amaterasu!"
In an instant, a flame black as ink erupted violently on the thick tree trunk behind Uchiha Obito.
The scorching heat distorted the air itself, raindrops vaporized the moment they touched the flames, unable to affect them in the slightest.
The Amaterasu Itachi cast had passed through Obito's body.
Itachi quickly leapt backward a few steps, widening the distance between them, and didn't continue attacking.
He originally wanted to take the chance to trade injuries and sneak-attack the opponent, he hadn't expected the enemy to react in time.
'From this, it seems the opponent's pupil technique isn't just a brief phasing. It can be maintained for some time.'
Uchiha Obito was now drenched in sweat.
But with the sweat mixing into the rain, it wasn't noticeable.
He hadn't expected Uchiha Itachi to discover Kamui's weakness so quickly.
If he hadn't sensed a change in Itachi's gaze just before the attack, and refrained from deactivating the phasing…
He would've been burnt.
And Amaterasu's flames were quite a pain even for him.
He hadn't expected one of Itachi's pupil technique to be so troublesome. He still didn't know what the other ability was…
Nearly failed to show off and got shown up instead.
Now, Obito didn't dare cancel his phasing.
"Uchiha Itachi, your abilities are even better than I imagined. But, still not enough to satisfy me."
Obito still maintained his arrogance.
Itachi, meanwhile, wiped the blood mixed with rain from the corner of his eye, making no further move, as rain continued passing through Obito's body.
He was considering whether to wait until the other canceled the phasing, and then test out Tsukuyomi.
He had already figured out this guy couldn't possibly be that old monster Uchiha Madara.
But then he recalled Aoba's plan, and dropped the idea.
'This man has a Mangekyō Sharingan and appeared before me at this particular time, he must be planning something.'
'Perhaps… this is an opportunity.'
"Go ahead, what did you come to me for today?"
Hearing this, Obito let out a sigh of relief in his heart, though his tone remained calm.
"Uchiha Itachi, between Konoha, the Uchiha, and your younger brother, which do you consider more important?"
"What do you mean?", Itachi looked at Obito with a cold, unreadable gaze, as if preparing to listen to his rambling.
"I have already seen your future. In the future...."
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